Proms at ... Cadogan Hall 4 – 6.08.18

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

13:00 Monday
Cadogan Hall

Charles Villiers Stanford : A Soft Day
Hubert Parry: Weep you no more, sad fountains
Ralph Vaughan Williams: The House of Life – 'Love-Sight'
Ivor Gurney: Thou didst delight my eyes
Sir Arthur Somervell : A Shropshire Lad – 'Into my heart an air that kills'
Frank Bridge: Come to me in my dreams
Herbert Howells: Goddess of Night
Frank Bridge: Journey's End
Benjamin Britten : A Sweet Lullaby - world première
Benjamin Britten: Somnus - world première
Gustav Holst : Journey's End
Benjamin Britten: A Charm of Lullabies
Mark-Anthony Turnage: Farewell - world première
Lisa Illean: Sleeplessness ... Sails - BBC commission: world première

Dame Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano
Joseph Middleton piano

Lullabies and dreams, sleep and insomnia are themes that drift through this night-inspired recital of English song.

British mezzo-soprano Dame Sarah Connolly makes her Proms recital debut in a programme that combines familiar favourites - Britten's cycle A Charm of Lullabies and songs by Vaughan Williams and Howells - with world premieres by Mark-Anthony Turnage and Lisa Illean, as well as of two songs Britten initially intended for A Charm of Lullabies.

Hubert Parry's 'Weep you no more' marks the centenary of his death and all the composers studied or taught at the Royal College of Music.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Britten premieres!

[LMcD]

Britten premieres!

Well, 'first performances' according to my (last-ever!) copy of the Radio Times, which I guess comes to the same thing.

[bluestateprommer]

Very fine recital by SC and JM, although the first part felt a bit overly same-y in tempo. Regarding the new Britten works, first, much thanks to Colin Matthews for realizing the two Britten songs for performance (originally meant for A Charm of Lullabies, but Britten cut them out, according to Petroc). Down the line, things really changed tempo, if momentarily, and picked up in several of the later songs of A Charm of Lullabies (surprisingly interrupted by some audience applause, compared to their restraint during the first portion of the concert). The new songs by Lisa Illean and M-AT were OK, nothing greatly striking, but this was only on one hearing, of course.

[edashtav]

Lisa ILLEAN , who is completing a doctorate at the RCM, says that she composes acoustic and acousmatic music.
Can anyone please help me with the emboldened word?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acousmatic_music

[edashtav]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acousmatic_music

I.e. just a posh name for what I innocently call Electronic music ... suppose that’s become too inclusive.
Cheers, ferney:

[Serial_Apologist]

I.e. just a posh name for what I innocently call Electronic music ... suppose that’s become too inclusive.
Cheers, ferney:

It's gone through several descriptive phases: Musique concrète; Elektronischesmusik; Electroacoustic music.....

[Bryn]

Where's MrGG when he's needed to give the definitive response?

[edashtav]

It's gone through several descriptive phases: Musique concrète; Elektronischesmusik; Electroacoustic music.....

But ... are your terms synonyms, S_A?

[doversoul1]

But ... are your terms synonyms, S_A?

I used to know a group of people who talked about and did Musique concrète back in the early1970s. I imagine the term has changed (evolved?) as more technologies/techniques have become available. When I knew it, Musique concrète was primarily the act of editing the sound that had been recorded on the open real tape-recorder and re-recording it.

[BBMmk2]

Somehow this one escaped my attention! So many good events on the radio at the moment! Hard to keep up to date!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Where's MrGG when he's needed to give the definitive response?

I was wondering that. I think that dovers has got it: sounds from the surrounding world are recorded and sampled on computers (no "tapes" necessarily involved - the achine does the cutting/splicing etc). "Electronic Music" uses technology to create sounds; "Electro-Acoustic" combines Electronic Music with more "conventional" Live singers and instrumentalists. Acousmatic is intended to be heard either over loudspeakers (either in a concert, with an audience sitting quietly paying attention, or as part of another Event, such as a visual Art exhibition or Fashion Show) or over headphones. It can involve Electronic Music, but has a whole sweet shop of other sound sources to pick & mix from as well.

[Bryn]

I was wondering that. I think that dovers has got it: sounds from the surrounding world are recorded and sampled on computers (no "tapes" necessarily involved - the achine does the cutting/splicing etc). "Electronic Music" uses technology to create sounds; "Electro-Acoustic" combines Electronic Music with more "conventional" Live singers and instrumentalists. Acousmatic is intended to be heard either over loudspeakers (either in a concert, with an audience sitting quietly paying attention, or as part of another Event, such as a visual Art exhibition or Fashion Show) or over headphones. It can involve Electronic Music, but has a whole sweet shop of other sound sources to pick & mix from as well.

Basically it's the oposite of the architipal Victorian child, i.e . heard but not seen.

[edashtav]

I think Ferney has it taped (Thank You, God.) and Bryn has created a great aide-memoire.